Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Good bye, miserable March.

A New York woman has exhibited her thoughtfulness and her taste by sending cards to her friends announcing her di- vorce.
 Another move against the right of this city to act for itself in the Derby matter was made in the legislature yesterday. The pro- posed interference is unwarranted and un- necessary.
 To-day sees the ful6llment of the saying of the prophet Jeremiah, Though they roar yet can they not pass" But the Boston Commercial Bulletin has found in Genesis, eighteenth chapter and fifth verse, the fol- lowing crumb of comfort Comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on."
 A number of the eminent physicians of New Orleans have signed petition to the city council to prohibit the gas company from bidding against the electric companies for the contract for lighting the city. These gentlemen declare that many of the streets are in bad order, and hence they want bet ter light than gas to enable them to travel with greater rapidity over the dilapidated roadways their errands of mercy to suffer ing humanity.
 Tennessee has wisely concluded not to de- pend upon the national government for money with which to maintain her schools. A new law raises the school tax from ten cents te twenty-five cents on each hundred dollars of taxable property and doubles the appropriation for the State normal school. A Memphis paper says that the means thus provided will be sufficient to maintain the schools for nine months in the year, and to give all the children, black and white, as good an education and as fair a start in life as is afforded now in the States most favored in this respect.
 The United States government is being warmly and justly criticised for it's action, or, rather, inaction, in the matter of the claim of the Choctaw Indians. The wrong has now lasted more than half a century. When this tribe was removed from it's tradi- tional habitation to the lands west of the Mississippi river it suffered through personal losses, through violation of treaties and other means. After vainly trying to secure redress in individual cases the claims of damages were grouped into one, and this was urged in behalf of the tribe. In 1853 the Indians of fered to call the account square if the gov ernment would pay them the net proceeds of the sale of the lands surrendered by them in the South. A treaty to this eff feet was adopted, and in 1859 the Sen- ate determined the valid claim to be $3,0O0, ,O0O. Two years after this Congress appropriated $500, 900 on account, of which the Indians were paid $25O, 1000 in cash. This was all that was ever paid. The Supreme court in November last decided that the govern ment owes the Choctaws $2, ,S58, 798.6 But | the inefficient congress did not make any appropriation to pay this debt and so the matter stands.
 The Parisian advocates, says the St. James Gazette, discussed the delicate question "Has a husband right to open his wife's lettersF' at their last conference, and they decided that he has. A journalist who has consulted several extra legal luminaries on the point finds them, with single exception, in sub l stantial agreement with the lawyers. An l "enlightened priest" whose name is not